PSYC 2000 Chapter : Chapter 1 Notes
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Interested in the importance of consciousness to everyday life rather than just its analysis: how people function in the real world-work, play, and adapt to their surroundings, investigate the function or purpose of consciousness, rather than its structure. Mashon 3: behaviorism- based on the premise that scientific psychology should study only observable behavior. Psychology now: modern perspectives: psychodynamic perspective, behavioral perspective, b. f. skinner, operant conditioning, humanistic perspective, cognitive perspective, sociocultural perspective, biopsychological perspective, evolutionary perspective. Mashon 6: refers to being at risk of confirming, as a self-characteristic, a negative sterotype about one"s social group. Institutional review board (irb: an ethics review committee established to review research proposals. Typically, comprised of scientists, nonscientists, and legal experts: e. g. , groups of psychologists and other professionals who look over each proposed research study and judge it according to its safety and consideration for the participants in the study.
